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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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• 3' end
• 5' end

A

• Acentric chromosome
• Achondroplasia
• Active site
• Adam's Curse
• Adaptation
• Adenine
• Adenosine
• Adenovirus
• Adenosine diphosphate (ADP)
• Ala
• Alagille syndrome
• Albino
• Alcoholism
• Alkylating agent
• Allele
• Allele frequency
• Alleles
• Allopolyploid
• Allosteric protein
• Allozyme
• Alternative splicing
• Altruism
• Alu family
• Alzheimer's disease
• Amber codon
• Ames test
• Amino acid
• Amino acid sequence
• Amino acids
• Amniocentesis
• Amorph
• AMP
• Amphidiploid
• Amplification
• Anagenesis
• Anaphase
• Aneuploid
• Aneuploid cell
• Aneuploidy
• Angelman syndrome
• Angiosperm
• Animal model
• Annealing
• Annotation
• Antibody
• Anticipation
• Anticoding strand
• Anticodon
• Antigen
• Antimorph
• Antiparallel
• Antisense
• Antisense RNA
• Antisense strand
• Antisense therapy
• AP endonuclease
• AP site
• Apert syndrome
• Apoptosis
• Applied genetics
• Arg
• Arrayed library
• Ascospore
• Ascus
• Asexual spore
• Asn
• Asp
• Assembly
• Assortative mating
• Asymptomatic carrier
• Atavism
• ATP
• Attenuator
• Autogamy
• Autopolyploid
• Autoradiograph
• Autoradiography
• Autosomal dominant
• Autosome
• Autotroph
• Auxotroph
• Auxotrophic mutant
• Axoneme

B

• B form DNA
• Bacillus
• Back mutation
• Backcross
• Bacteria
• Bacterial lawn
• Bacteriophage
• Balbiani ring
• Barr body
• Basal body
• Base
• Base analogue
• Base pair
• Base pairs
• Base sequence
• Batesian mimicry
• Bayesian analysis
• Bead theory
• Behavioral genetics
• Behavioural genetics
• Beta-galactosidase
• Bimodal distribution
• Binary fission
• Binomial expansion
• Binomial theorem
• Biochemical genetics
• Bioinformatics
• Biolistic
• Bioremediation
• Biotechnology
• Biparental zygote
• Birth defect
• Bivalent (genetics)
• BLAST
• Blastoderm
• Blastomere
• Blastopore
• Blastula
• Blending inheritance
• Blunt-end ligation
• Bookmarking
• Bottleneck
• Brachydactyly
• Branch migration
• BRCA1
• BRCA2
• Breakage and reunion
• Bridging cross
• Bud
• Buoyant density
• Burkitt lymphoma

C

• Cancer
• Candidate gene
• Capillary array
• Carcinogen
• Carcinoma
• Carrier
• Carrier testing
• Cat coat genetics
• cDNA
• cDNA library
• Cell
• Centimorgan
• Central dogma of molecular biology
• Centromere
• Chemical base
• Chimeraplasty
• Chromomere
• Chromosomal crossover
• Chromosomal deletion
• Chromosome
• Chromosome aglet
• Chromosome banding
• Chromosome painting
• Chromosome region p
• Chromosome region q
• Classical genetics
• Cleft lip
• Cleft palate
• Clinical geneticist
• Clone (genetics)
• Clone bank
• Cloned DNA
• Cloning
• Cloning vector
• Coccus
• Code
• Code dictionary
• Coding strand
• Codominance
• Codon
• Codon usage bias aka Codon preference
• Cohesive end
• Cointegrate
• Col plasmid
• Colicinogenic factor
• Colinearity
• Colonoscopy
• Colony
• Common ancestry
• Comparative genomics
• Compartment
• Competence factor
• Competent
• Complementarity
• Complementary DNA
• Complementation
• Complementation test
• Complete linkage
• Complex trait
• Component of fitness
• Composite transposon
• Concordance
• Conditional mutation
• Confidence limits
• Confidentiality
• Congenital
• Conjugation
• Conjugation tube
• Consanguineous
• Consanguinity
• Consensus sequence
• Conservative change
• Conserved sequence
• Constant region
• Constitutive
• Contig
• Contig map
• Contig maps
• Contiguous genes
• Continuous variation
• Controlling element
• Copper fist
• Copy-choice model
• Corepressor
• Correction
• Cosegregation
• Cosmid
• Cosmids
• Cot value
• Cotransduction
• Cotransformation
• Coupling
• Covariance
• cpDNA
• CpG island
• Craniosynostosis
• Cri du chat
• cRNA
• Cross
• Cross-fertilization
• Crossbreed
• Crossover
• Crossover suppressor
• Crossovers
• Cryptic coloration
• Culture
• Cyclic AMP
• Cys
• Cystic fibrosis
• Cytidine
• Cytochrome
• Cytogenetic map
• Cytogenetics
• Cytohet
• Cytokinesis
• Cytological band
• Cytological map
• Cytoplasm
• Cytoplasmic trait
• Cytosine
• Cytosol

D

• D-loop
• Darwinian fitness
• Data warehouse
• Dauermodification
• Deficiency
• Degenerate code
• Degenerate codon
• Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
• Deletion
• Deletion chromosome
• Deletion map
• Deletion mapping
• Deme (Biology)
• Dementia
• Denaturation
• Denaturation map
• Denominator element
• Deoxyribonuclease
• Deoxyribonucleotide
• Deoxyribose
• Depauperate fauna
• Derepressed
• Determinant
• Determination
• Deterministic
• Developmental biology
• Diabetes mellitus
• Diakinesis
• Dicentric bridge
• Dicentric chromosome
• Dictyotene
• Dideoxy method
• Differentiation
• Dihybrid
• Dihybrid cross
• Dimerization
• Dimorphism
• Dioecious plant
• Diploid
• Directed evolution
• Directed mutagenesis
• Directed sequencing
• Discrete generations
• Disease
• Disruptive selection
• Distribution
• DMD
• DNA
• DNA amplification
• DNA bank
• DNA clone
• DNA cloning
• DNA fingerprint
• DNA glycosylase
• DNA gyrase
• DNA hybridization
• DNA ligase
• DNA marker
• DNA polymerase
• DNA probe
• DNA repair genes
• DNA replication
• DNA sequence
• DNA sequencing
• Docking protein
• DOE
• Domain
• Dominance variance
• Dominant
• Dominant allele
• Dominant phenotype
• Dosage compensation
• Dose
• Dot blotting
• Double crossover(Bad Link)
• Double digest
• Double helix
• Double infection
• Double reduction
• Doublesex
• Down syndrome
• Downstream
• Draft sequence
• Drift
• Duplicate gene
• Dwarfism
• Dyad
• Dyad symmetry
• Dystonia

E

• E (exit site)
• Ecdysone
• Ecological genetics
• Ectopic expression
• Ectopic integration
• Electrophoresis
• Electroporation
• ELSI
• Endogenote
• Endomitosis
• Endonuclease
• Endopolyploidy
• Endosperm
• Enforced outbreeding
• Enhancer
• Enhancer trap
• Enriched medium
• Enucleate cell
• Enzyme
• Epigenetics
• Episome
• Epistasis
• Equational division
• Equivalence group
• Erythrocytes
• Escherichia coli
• Ethics
• Ethidium
• Euchromatin
• Eugenics
• Eukaryote
• Eukaryotic cell
• Euploid
• Euploidy
• European Journal of Human Genetics
• Evolution
• Evolutionary rate
• Excision repair
• Exconjugant
• Exogenote
• Exogenous DNA
• Exon
• Exon shuffling
• Exonuclease
• Experimental design
• Expressed gene
• Expression vector
• Expressivity

F

• F factor
• F' factor
• F plus cell
• F- cell
• F-duction
• F-pili
• F1 generation
• F2 generation
• Factorial
• Familial cancer
• Familial trait
• Family selection
• Fanconi's anemia
• Fate map
• Fecundity selection
• Feedback inhibition
• Fibroblasts
• Filial generation
• Filter enrichment
• Fimbriae
• Fingerprint
• Fingerprinting
• FISH (Fluorescent in situ hybridization)
• Fitness (W)
• Fixed allele
• Fixed breakage point
• Flow cytometry
• Flow karyotyping
• Fluctuation test
• Fluorescent in situ hybridization
• FMET
• Focus map
• Footprinting
• Forensics
• Forward mutation
• Founder effect
• Fragile site
• Fragile X syndrome
• Frameshift
• Frameshift mutation
• Fraternal twin
• Frequency histogram
• Fruiting body
• Full gene sequence
• Functional allele
• Functional genomics
• Fundamental number

G

• G-banding
• Galton Laboratory
• Gamete
• Gametic selection
• Gametophyte
• Gastrulation
• GC-rich area
• Gel electrophoresis
• Gene
• Gene amplification
• Gene chip technology
• Gene cloning
• Gene complex
• Gene conversion
• Gene dose
• Gene expression
• Gene family
• Gene flow
• Gene frequency
• Gene fusion
• Gene interaction
• Gene library
• Gene locus
• Gene map
• Gene mapping
• Gene markers
• Gene mutation
• Gene pair
• Gene pool
• Gene prediction
• Gene product
• Gene regulatory network
• Gene testing
• Gene therapy
• Gene transfer
• Genetic algorithm
• Genetic architecture
• Genetic code
• Genetic counseling
• Genetic deletion
• Genetic determinism
• Genetic disorder
• Genetic dissection
• Genetic engineering
• Genetic illness
• Genetic informatics
• Genetic linkage map
• Genetic load
• Genetic map
• Genetic marker
• Genetic material
• Genetic mosaic
• Genetic polymorphism
• Genetic screen
• Genetic screening
• Genetic testing
• Genetic variance
• Genetic variation
• Geneticist
• Genetics
• Genetics experiments
• Genic balance theory
• Genome
• Genome map
• Genome project
• Genome screen
• Genomic library
• Genomic sequence
• Genomics
• Genophore
• Genotype
• Germ cell
• Germ line
• Germ-line theory
• Germinal mutation
• Germline mutation
• Giemsa stain
• Gln
• Glu
• Gly
• God gene
• Gradient
• Gray crescent
• gRNA
• Ground state
• Group 1 intron
• Group II intron
• Group selection
• Guanine
• Guanosine
• Guide RNA
• Gynandromorph

H

• H-Y antigen
• Haemoglobin (hb)
• Haemophilia
• Haplodiploidy
• Haploid
• Haploidization
• Haploinsufficiency
• Haplotype
• Hardy-Weinberg Law
• Harlequin chromosome
• HAT medium
• Hayflick limit
• Heat-shock protein
• Helicase
• Hemizygous
• Hemizygous gene
• Hemophilia
• Hereditary cancer
• Hereditary mutation
• Heredity
• Heritability
• Hermaphrodite
• Heterochromatin
• Heteroduplex
• Heteroduplex DNA
• Heteroduplex mapping
• Heterogametic sex
• Heterogamy
• Heterogeneity
• Heterokaryon
• Heterokaryon test
• Heteroplasmon
• Heteroplasmy
• Heterothallic
• Heterothallic fungus
• Heterotroph
• Heterozygosity
• Heterozygote
• Heterozygous
• Heterozygous DNA
• Hexaploid
• Hfr
• HGP
• HHMI
• Himalayan
• His
• Histone
• HnRNA
• Hogness box
• Holandric trait
• Holoenzyme
• Holoprosencephaly
• Homeo-box
• Homeo-domain
• Homeobox
• Homeosis
• Homogametic sex
• Homolog
• Homologue
• Homology
• Homoplasmy
• Homothallic
• Homothallic fungus
• Homozygote
• Homozygous
• Homozygous gene pair
• Hormone
• Host range
• Hot spot
• Housekeeping genes
• HUGO
• Human gene therapy
• Human genetics
• Human genome
• Human Genome Project
• Huntington disease
• Huntington's disease
• Hybrid
• Hybrid DNA
• Hybrid dysgenesis
• Hybrid plasmid
• Hybrid zone
• Hybridization
• Hybridize
• Hybridoma
• Hydrogen bond
• Hydroxyapatite
• Hypermorph
• Hyperploid
• Hypervariable locus
• Hypervariable region
• Hypomorph
• Hypoploid
• Hypostatic gene

I

• Ichthyosis
• Identical twin
• Identity by descent
• Identity by type
• Idiogram
• Idiotypic variation
• Idling reaction
• Ig
• Ile
• Imago
• Immune system
• immunity
• Immunoglobulin (Ig)
• Immunoglobulin gene
• Immunohistochemistry
• Immunotherapy
• Imprinting
• In situ
• In vitro
• In vitro mutagenesis
• In vivo
• Inbreeding
• Incestuous
• Inclusive fitness
• Incomplete dominance
• Inducer
• Inducible operon
• Induction
• Industrial melanism
• Infectious transfer
• Informatics
• Informed consent
• Inherit
• Inherited
• Initiation codon
• Initiation complex
• Initiator protein
• Inosine
• Insertion
• Insertional mutation
• Inside marker
• Intercalating agent
• Interference
• Interkinesis
• Interphase
• Interrupted mating
• Intersex
• Interstitial region
• Intron
• Introns
• Inversion
• Iojap
• Ionizing radiation
• IR
• IS
• IS element
• Isoaccepting tRNA
• Isochromosome
• Isoenzyme
• Isoschizomer
• Isotope
• Isozyme

J

• Junk DNA

K

• Kappa particle
• Kartagener's Syndrome
• Karyokinesis
• Karyotype
• Kilobase
• Kin selection
• Kinetochore
• Klinefelter syndrome
• Knockout

L

• Lac operon
• Lagging strand
• Lambda dgal
• Lambda phage
• Lateral inhibition
• Lawn
• Leader peptide gene
• Leader sequence
• Leader transcript
• Leading strand
• Leaky mutant
• Lesion
• Lethal gene
• Leu
• Leucine zipper
• Leukemia
• Li-Fraumeni syndrome
• Library (genetics)
• Ligase
• Line
• Linear tetrad
• Linkage
• Linkage analysis
• Linkage equilibrium
• Linkage group
• Linkage map
• Linking number
• Localize
• Locus
• Lod score
• Lod score method
• Lymphocyte
• Lymphoma
• Lyon hypothesis
• Lys
• Lysate
• Lysis
• Lysogen
• Lysogenic
• Lysogenic bacterium

M

• Macromolecule
• Macrorestriction map
• Malformation
• Manx
• Mapping
• Mapping function
• Mapping population
• Marfan syndrome
• Marker
• Marker retention
• Mass spectrometry
• Mate-killer
• Maternal effect
• Maternal inheritance
• Mating type
• Mean
• Medium
• Megabase
• Meiocyte
• Meiosis
• Meiospore
• Melanoma
• Melting of DNA
• Mendel's first law
• Mendel's second law
• Mendelian ratio
• Merozygote
• Messenger RNA
• Met
• Metabolism
• Metafemale
• Metagon
• Metamale
• Metamere
• Metaphase
• Metaphase plate
• Metastasis
• Methylation
• Metrical variation
• Microarray
• Microbial genetics
• Microinjection
• Micronuclei
• Microsatellite
• Microtubules
• Midparent value
• Migration
• Mimicry
• Minimal medium
• Mismatch repair
• Missense mutation
• Mitochondrial DNA
• Mitochondrial Eve
• Human mitochondrial genetics
• Mitochondrion
• Mitosis
• Mitotic apparatus
• Mitotic crossover
• Mixed codon family
• Mode
• Model organisms
• Modeling
• Modifier gene
• Molecular biology
• Molecular chaperone
• Molecular farming
• Molecular genetics
• Molecular imprinting
• Molecular medicine
• Molecule
• Monocistronic mRNA
• Monoclonal antibody
• Monoecious plant
• Monogenic disorder
• Monohybrid
• Monohybrid cross
• Monoploid
• Monosomic
• Monosomy
• Morbid map
• Morphogenesis
• Mosaic (genetics)
• Mosaicism
• Mouse model
• mRNA
• mtDNA
• Mu particle
• Mu phage
• Mullerian mimicry
• Multifactorial
• Multihybrid
• Multimeric structure
• Multiple allelism
• Multiplexing
• Murine
• Mutability
• Mutagen
• Mutagenicity
• Mutant
• Mutant allele
• Mutant screening
• Mutant site
• Mutation
• Mutation breeding
• Mutation event
• Mutation frequency
• Mutation rate
• Mutational load
• Mutator mutation
• Muton
• Myeloma
• Myotonic dystrophy

N

• N segment
• N-end rule
• Narrow heritability
• Natural selection
• Negative control
• Neo-darwinism
• Neomorph
• Neoplasm
• Neurofibromatosis
• Neurospora
• Neutral mutation
• Neutral petite
• Newborn screening
• NF
• Nickase
• Nicking
• NIH
• Nitrogen base
• Nitrogenous base
• Non-coding DNA
• Non-coding strand
• Non-directiveness
• Non-disjunction
• Non-histone protein
• Non-linear tetrad
• Non-Mendelian ratio
• Non-parental
• Non-recombinant
• Nonsense codon
• Nonsense mutation
• Nonsense suppressor
• Noonan syndrome
• Norm of reaction
• Normal distribution
• Northern analysis
• Northern blot
• NPD
• Nu body
• Nuclear transfer
• Nuclease
• Nucleic acid
• Nucleoid
• Nucleolar organizer
• Nucleolus
• Nucleoprotein
• Nucleoside
• Nucleosome
• Nucleotide
• Nucleotide pair
• Nucleotides
• Nucleus
• Null allele
• Null hypothesis
• Nullisomic
• Numerator element
• Nurse cell

O

• Ochre codon
• Octad
• Okazaki fragment
• Oligo
• Oligogenic
• Oligonucleotide
• Oncogene
• Oncogenes
• Oncovirus
• Oocyte
• Oogenesis
• Oogonia
• Opal codon
• Open reading frame
• Operator
• Operon
• Organelle
• Organogenesis
• Outbreeding
• Outside markers
• Overdominance
• Overlapping clones
• Ovum

P

• P (peptidyl) site
• P element
• P1
• P53
• Palindrome
• Panmictic
• Paralogous genes
• Paramecin
• Parameters
• Parental
• Parental ditype
• Parental imprinting
• Parkinson's disease
• Parthenogenesis
• Partial digest
• Partial diploid
• Partial dominance
• Pascal's triangle
• Patent
• Path diagram
• Pathogen
• Pattern formation
• PCR
• PD
• Pedigree
• Penetrance
• Peptide
• Peptide bond
• Peptidyl transferase
• Permissive condition
• PEST hypothesis
• Petite mutation
• Phage
• Pharmacogenomics
• Pharming
• Phe
• Phenocopy
• Phenotype
• Phenotypic variance
• Phenylketonuria
• Pheromone
• Phosphodiester bond
• Photoreactivation
• Phyletic evolution
• Phyletic gradualism
• Phylogenetic tree
• Phylogenetics
• Physical map
• Piebald
• Pilus
• PKU
• Plant breeding
• Plasmid
• Plastid
• Plate
• Pleiotropic mutation
• Pleiotropy
• Pluripotency
• Point mutation
• Poisson distribution
• Poky mutation
• Polar body
• Polar granules
• Polar mutation
• Polarity
• Polarity gene
• Pollen grain
• Poly(A) tail
• Polyacrylamide
• Polycistronic
• Polycistronic mRNA
• Polydactyly
• Polygene
• Polygenic disorder
• Polymerase
• Polymerize
• Polymorphism
• Polypeptide
• Polyploid
• Polyribosome
• Polysaccharide
• Polysome
• Polytene chromosome
• Population
• Population genetics
• Position effect
• Positional cloning
• Positive control
• Pre-mRNA
• Precancerous polyp
• Predisposition
• Preemptor stem
• Prenatal diagnosis
• Pribnow box
• Primary oocyte
• Primary spermatocyte
• Primary structure
• Primary transcript
• Primase
• Primer
• Primosome
• Prion
• Privacy
• Pro
• Probability
• Probability theory
• Proband
• Probe
• Processivity
• Product of meiosis
• Product rule
• Proflavin
• Progeny testing
• Prognosis
• Prokaryote
• Prokaryotic cell
• Promoter
• Pronucleus
• Proofread
• Proofreader genes
• Prophage
• Prophase
• Prophylactic surgery
• Proplastid
• Propositus
• Prostate cancer
• Protease
• Protein
• Protein product
• Proteome
• Proteomics
• Proteus syndrome
• Proto-oncogene
• Protoplast
• Prototroph
• Provirus
• Pseudoallele
• Pseudoautosomal region
• Pseudodominance
• Pseudogene
• Public policy
• Puff
• Punnett square
• Purine
• Purines
• Pyrimidine

Q

• Quaternary structure

R

• R factor
• R plasmid
• Radiation hybrid
• RAM mutation
• Random genetic drift
• Random mating
• Rare-cutter enzyme
• Reading frame
• Readthrough
• Reannealing
• Rec system
• Receptor element
• Recessive allele
• Recessive gene
• Recessive phenotype
• Reciprocal altruism
• Reciprocal cross
• Recombinant
• Recombinant clone
• Recombinant DNA
• Recombination
• Recon
• Reduction division
• Redundant DNA
• Regression
• Regulator element
• Regulator gene
• Relaxed mutant
• Renal cell cancer
• Renal cell carcinoma
• Renner complex
• Repeat sequences
• Repetitive DNA
• Replica plating
• Replication fork
• Replicon
• Replisome
• Reporter gene
• Repressible operon
• Repression
• Repressor
• Reproductive cells
• Reproductive success
• Repulsion
• Resolving power
• Restriction digest
• Restriction enzyme
• Restriction enzymes
• Restriction map
• Retinitis pigmentosa
• Retinoblastoma
• Retroviral infection
• Retrovirus
• Reverse genetics
• Reversion
• RF
• RFLP
• RFLP mapping
• Rho
• Ribonucleic acid
• Ribonucleotide
• Ribose
• Ribosomal protein
• Ribosomal RNA
• Ribosome
• Ribosomes
• Ribozyme
• Risk communication
• RNA
• RNA editing
• RNA phage
• RNA polymerase
• RNA replicase
• Robertsonian fusion
• rRNA
• Rule of segregation

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T

• T-cell receptor
• T-DNA
• TACTAAC box
• Tandem duplication
• Target theory
• Targeted mutagenesis
• TATA box
• Tautomeric shift
• Tay-Sachs disease
• Technology transfer
• Telomerase
• Telomere
• Telophase
• Temperate phage
• Template
• Template strand
• Teratogen
• Teratogenic
• Teratogens
• Terminal redundancy
• Terminator sequence
• Tertiary structure
• Test cross
• Tester
• Tetrad
• Tetrad analysis
• Tetraparental mouse
• Tetraploid
• Tetratype (T)
• Theta structure
• Thr
• Three-point cross
• Thymidine
• Thymine
• Thymine dimer
• Ti plasmid
• Topoisomer
• Topoisomerase
• Totipotency
• Totipotent
• Toxicogenomics
• Trait (biological)
• Trans
• Trans conformation
• Trans-acting
• Transcription
• Transcription factor
• Transcriptome
• Transducing particle
• Transduction
• Transfection
• Transfer RNA
• Transferase
• Transform
• Transformation
• Transformer
• Transgenic
• Transgenic organism
• Transient diploid
• Transition
• Transition mutation
• Translation
• Translocase (EF-G)
• Translocation
• Transposable element
• Transposition
• Transposon
• Transversion
• Trihybrid
• Triplet
• Triplet code
• Triploid
• Trisomic
• Trisomy
• Tritium
• tRNA
• Trp
• True heritability
• True speciation
• Truncation selection
• Tumour
• Tumour virus
• Turner syndrome
• Twin spot
• Twin study
• Two-point cross
• Type I and type II errors
• Typological thinking
• Tyr

U

• Underdominance
• Unequal crossover
• Uninemic chromosome
• Uniparental disomy
• Unique DNA
• Unmixed codon family
• Unstable mutation
• Unusual bases
• Upstream
• Uracil
• URF
• Uridine

V

• V-J joining
• Val
• Variable
• Variable region
• Variance
• Variant
• Variate
• Variation
• Variegation
• Vector
• Viability
• Virion
• Viroid
• Virulent phage
• Virus
• VNTR

W

• Wahlund effect
• Weismann barrier
• Western blot
• Wild type
• Wilms' tumor
• Wobble
• Wolfram syndrome

X

• X chromosome
• X hyperactivation
• X linkage
• X linked
• X-and-Y linkage
• X-inactivation
• X:A ratio
• Xenograft
• XYY
• XYY syndrome

Y

• Y chromosome
• Y linkage
• Y linked
• Y-chromosomal Aaron
• Y-chromosomal Adam
• YAC

Z

• Z-DNA
• Zinc finger
• Zinc-finger protein
• Zygote

See also

• List of genetics research organizations
• List of geneticists & biochemists